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Is "A Scanner Darkly" PKD's masterpiece?

I just finished reading it and have no previous experience with his opus besides watching Blade Runner. Now I'm hooked, I found it really interesting although some parts were kind of hard to follow.

>> No.16017958

>>16017854
I am not sure if he has a masterpiece, but it is the book where he really got back on track after his drug derailment. Everything that came after is great.

>> No.16017982

>>16017958
You think his previous books were bad? What are you referring to?

>> No.16018250

>>16017854
man in the high castle and ubik are both better

>> No.16018263

>>16017854
I read a collection of his short stories, called electric dreams I think. Good, thought-provoking stuff. My favourite stories are the one about the hanged people, the one at the beginning about that "dimension hopper", and the one about that old lady wanting to see her home planet again.

>> No.16018296

>>16017854
Just finished Ubik and am now on Man in the High Castle. Ubik was great, can't recommend it highly enough.

>> No.16018407

>>16017982
He was very much a pulp author up until The Man in the High Castle, then he went nuts and his work goes all over with each novel having varying degrees of pulp and schizo mixed in until you get to A Scanner Darkly where he drops the pulp and the schizo and essentially resumes the path he started on with The Man in the High Castle.

I would not say it is bad, I like a good amount of the pulp era and the weird middle era, it is just not of the same quality.

Hope I made sense, sort of falling asleep here.